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What is Anora's Nationality? No Need to Guess Anymore — The Director Himself Tells Us

globallookpress.com — still from the movie 'Anora' and the promotion poster

Many attribute Uzbek roots to her, but is this really true?

After the release of Sean Baker's film Anora, Yura Borisov attracted a lot of attention. However, viewers did not ignore the main character, played by Mikey Madison. Having seen the actress in the films Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (2019) and Scream (2022), Baker decided to entrust her with the main role without casting. Madison simultaneously mastered the Russian language and worked on a Brooklyn accent. At the same time, viewers were quite interested in the origins of her character.

Anora Still

In various sources, you can find mentions that Anora Mikheeva is an American with Uzbek roots, but Baker himself specified that the heroine is "Russian by nationality" and "originally from one of the post-Soviet countries." By the way, only a few understood the genius of the ending of Anora - so we explained everything . Now you will definitely understand everything about the scene where the characters do not utter a word.

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